I’ve been watching the Google Campfire video on their recently announced OpenSocial initiative. And aside from it being wonderfully cheesy - there literally is a campfire and the smoke continues to waft across the presenter throughout the presentation - its is a handy overview of the situation that currently exists with social networks and the [...]
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Nature’s Network
October 18th, 2007 by Ally · 2 Comments
My recent research for RMM has revolved around education, with the main focal point being e-learning. One thing that has caught my eye and imagination is the Nature Network (NN), a specialised social network that connects scientists at a global and local level.
Writing in the Education Guardian, Jessica Shephard discusses the rise of the [...]
Sick of the Interwebs?
September 26th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments
Well, so is the very funny David McCandless, who brings us The Internet Now in Handy Book Form, a hilarious and devastating spoof of the World Wide Web and, more particularly, the freaks and geeks who populate it (that would be us, nb). It pretty much does for the internet what Charlie Brooker’s TVGoHome did [...]
Musicovery: a late discovery
September 25th, 2007 by Iain MacMillan · 1 Comment
Via those nice chaps at Music Choice, something that I’d missed from last year - an extension of Musicplasma that allows you to find new music via genres and moods - and then via a map of the relationships between artists.
Not quite sure why this one is resurfacing. I liked Musicplasma, but after a bit [...]
Missing Word Round
September 6th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 1 Comment
What’s missing from Om Malik’s otherwise sound description of Facebook’s new-and-improved-if-by-”improved”-you-mean-”ruined” public-facing search funtion:
This move transforms Facebook from being a social network to being quasi-White Pages of the Web.”
Answer after the jump…